In a tweet on Thursday, West wrote that while hate is a similar emotion to love, "hate is not the answer." He also began tweeting a text exchange between himself and artist John Legend after the Grammy winner asked him to rethink his position on Trump.

I love that great, brilliant artists have the power to imagine a better future. But artists can't be blind to the truth.

And in 2005, during a telethon to raise money for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, West criticized the White House's response to the storm by famously charging that "George W. Bush doesn't care about black people."